As more genomes from patients become available to researchers, the chances of finding genetic mutations associated with disease and thereby improving treatment rise. However, demands for computational speed and capacity also grow. In a joint project, Cancer Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore), the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC), and SingAREN, the national research and education network (NREN) of Singapore, has taken genomic cancer research to a new level.
“The network speeds of SingAREN, combined with the computational power of NSCC (..) has allowed us to greatly enhance local scientific efforts by enabling us to effectively utilize petabytes of sequencing data generated globally,” says Dr. Jason Pitt, CSI Singapore.
In the project, SingAREN provided Dr. Pitt’s team with a high-speed link for petabytes of cancer genomics data downloaded from USA repositories into the NSCC supercomputer ASPIRE 2A. The project consumed more than 2 petabytes of data from the National Cancer Institute’s Genomic Data Commons administered by the University of Chicago.
As the lab harmonizes petabytes of whole genome sequencing data, downloads must be extremely fast, stable, and efficient, after which the downloaded data is to be analyzed and reprocessed with high computing power.
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